He's been with me for years and is a solid martial artist. He's dependable, steady and a hard worker.
He is training for his 2nd Degree Black and e-mailed to ask me for help in practicing. He wanted to know if there was a "perfect" way to practice where he could work on every aspect of his training.
He wants to work his self defense techniques, his sparring, grappling, weapons defenses as well as his timing, speed and power.
I am also working with other professional martial arts instructors who are managing individual locations teaching the martial arts.
Some are doing well; some are average and some are struggling. The question that keeps getting asked is, "How do I get to the next level?"
Many times it feels like they are looking for Yoda; they are looking for the one thing that is the "key" to success.
The answer to my Black Belt's question and to the questions of the Instructors is simple. Here it is...
There is no perfect way or "one thing".
Sorry.
No secret potion, no ancient prayer, no magic marketing technique.
No one way to train that "magically" transforms you.
There is only action, the right information, focus on the right things and consistency between where you are and where you want to be.
In training, no one way is going to be perfect. Perfection is a perception. You want to address each area you want to develop and just work it.
You can have speed day once a week where you work all your techniques with an emphasis on speed. Then you can have power days where you focus on power.
You can do the same with all the ranges of combat when you train. One day is trapping range for speed, the next for power. Or you can grapple with a focus on finishes or with a focus on transitions.
For business, use the tools that have already proven successful. If you want to grow your business and it already has a level of success with just you, if you add another person and have them duplicate exactly what you did (and assuming you didn't quit working), your business would double.
I know of an Instructor running a school who did just that. He started with zero students and within a year had over two hundred.
And all he did was get to seventy five, add an instructor and have them do exactly as he did, then we that instructor got to seventy five, added another one and repeated the process.
As of today, he has over 243 students and he hasn't even been open for two years yet.
I know; it seems too simple. It can't be that easy.
Simple works. Simple has always worked. The challenge is that we all make it complicated, get overwhelmed, doubt ourselves and generally get in our own way.
Think about it. In martial arts, the jump spinning triple yamaguchi kick rarely hits anything or anyone, but the right cross on the button puts them on their can.
In business, the multi-layered, fifty six step sales process with all these moving parts, bells and whistles fizzle out while good old-fashioned direct mail, print ads, referrals, drop boxes, e-mails and the telephone can and do build multi-million dollar businesses.
The Shaolin Monks understand simplicity. At http://www.shaolinsecrets.com, you can learn that Secrets of the Shaolin Temple has principles, techniques and information that is incredibly powerful and that can expand your knowledge and skills.
And all you need to do to learn and grow with this information is your mind, your body and the desire to be great.
Simple.
Best,
William Huff
P.S. - I just got off of the phone with my printer and Secrets of the Shaolin Temple Volume II is on the horizon. Stay tuned.
P.P.S. - For another example of how "Simple Works" go to http://www.shaolinsecrets.com/lightning-ju-jitsu.html and see how simple it is for you to get the training manuals that were used to train soldiers in hand-to-hand combat during WWII.